you don't know anything about movies. who the hell asked you?

1. the texas chainsaw massacre
2. house on haunted hill
3. 13 ghosts
4. house of wax
5. don't look now
6. alice sweet alice
7. psycho
8. jaws
9. the shining
10. .rec
11. children of the corn
12. last house on the left
13. candyman
14. frankenstien
15.wait until dark
16. when a stranger calls
17. night of the living dead (1968)
18. night of the living dead (1990)
19. suspiria
20. dracula
21. pet cemetary
22. the mummy
23. the birds
24. the stepford wives
25. phantasm
26. the amityville horror
27. dawn of the dead
28. the omen
29. rosemary's baby
30. rear window
31. day of the dead
32. the serpent and the rainbow
33. black christmas
34. silence of the lambs
35. zombi 2
36. evil dead
37. evil dead 2
38. carrie
39. wicker man
40. the hills have eyes
41. invasion of the body snatchers
42. freaks
43. marathon man
44. clockwork orange
45. audition
46. a tale of two sisters
47. ju-on the curse
48. the grudge
49. the grudge 2
50. shutter
51. battle royale
52. suicide club
53. oldboy
54. one missed call
55. one missed call 2
56. coming soon
57. alone
58. land of the dead
59. ringu
60. se7en
61. the blob
62. war of the worlds
63. the day the earth stood still
64. them
65. the other
66. single white female
67. the eye
68. nosforatu
69. invaders from mars
70. the alligator people
71. bubba ho-tep

i couldn't even make it to any specific round number, because let's face it, there's just not that many good movies. in no order whatsoever. i don't think it's fair to stack movies against each other that are in all ways vastly different from each other.

i find myself getting really (unnecessarily) upset over these top whatever scariest movies ever made. ask a bunch of assholes who don't know anything about movies to comment on them. amazing. might as well ask my friends to compile a list of the scariest movie scenes of all time. they know many things. but horror, they do not. so i did what any nerd would do. i made my own. that someone else is bound to disagree with, and get all up-in-arms about.

the snob in me makes it very very difficult to include anything from america from the past 20 years. but if you look closely, you might find one or two. also, (1) omar epps and naomi watts immediately disqualified their movies. and (2) i think fright night, poltergeist, and exorcist are all too funny to make the cut. deal with it.